Where I've Been, or Tales in Actively Being Mauled By A Bear

I didn't just disappear on you! Okay, well, I kinda did, but I had multiple reasons, the biggest being I was nearly sick forever and finally have come down with The Mystery Illness of Feeling Like Death. And that doesn't bode well for baking.

I did manage to bake A LITTLE! But the recipes need some tweaking before I put them here. The first was a vanilla bean macaron that was DIVINE. Seriously. I kid you not. That post is mostly written, it just needs the pictures. You see my problem.

I also tried rose macarons, which turned out wonderfully well except for the fact I didn't get enough air out of the batter, so I was flustered.

The next was an Irish Coffee macaron, which were just luscious except the texture of the buttercream was off. Shells sliding apart doesn't make for a happy baker.

The last were Ispahan macarons, which tasted AMAZING, but the filling was much too gooey-mushy and that made me mad.

So, I'll tweak the recipes when I don't feel like death and put them here. And then I have to figure out just how far behind I am so I can attempt to catch up.

When I feel better, I'm also planning on making Chocolate Cherry Coke macarons, and posting my recipes for the macarons I made during Christmas (mango vanilla bean, orange vanilla bean, red velvet, and coconut lime). Wait, that might catch me up! Huzzah!!